This piano instructional workbook and DVD reveals the coveted secrets of Black Gospel Piano with easy to understand and execute techniques. Learn how to gospelize any song you currently play with easy chord substitutions. Learn how to use chord progressions for fill-in times with slow chording. Also listed is a selection of exciting preaching chords Black Gospel is so well known for. Everyone loves the "cool" sound of this style of music, but it is hard to find practical instruction. All songs are demonstrated in the key of "C" with exact voicings for all the chords. All the notes for the left hand and right hand are given, as well as demonstrated on the DVD. Step by step instructions. Sound like a pro fast and impress your friends and family. This is the teaching you have been waiting for at an affordable price.Price:
People Get Ready!: A New History of Gospel Music is a passionate, celebratory, and carefully researched chronology of one of America’s greatest treasures. From Africa through the spirituals, from minstrel music through jubilee, and from traditional to contemporary gospel, People Get Ready! shows the links between styles, social patterns, and artists. The emphasis is on the stories behind the songs and musicians. From the nameless slaves of Colonial America to Donnie McClurkin, Yolanda Adams, and Kirk Franklin, People Get Ready! provides, for the first time, an accessible overview of this musical genre. In addition to the more familiar stories of Thomas A. Dorsey and Mahalia Jackson, the book offers intriguing new insights into the often forgotten era between the Civil War and the rise of jubilee—that most intriguing blend of minstrel music, barbershop harmonies, and the spiritual. Also chronicled are the connections between some of gospel’s precursors (Blind Willie Johnson, Arizona Dranes, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe) and modern gospel stars, including Andrae Crouch and Clara Ward. People Get Ready! knits together a number of narratives, and combines history, musicology and spirituality into a coherent whole, stitched together by the stories of dozens of famous and forgotten musical geniuses. 
You can learn how toplay Gospel Musicand learn how toplay the piano atthe same time! Thequick and practicalapproach tolearning how toread music. Thisbook makeslearning to playthe piano fun forall ages!!CDs are available to go along with the books. For more information go to:www.jeffersonpresents.com
During the past two decades, a secondary movement has been sweeping across Europe and Australia, and is now taking root in East Asian countries, such as Japan and China. The source of this phenomenon is African-American, or "Black" gospel music. Each year, new gospel choirs are formed in many countries, attracting professional, amateur, and neophyte singers and musicians of all ages, and generating interest that often moves from churches into main-stream culture, and vice versa. A mere glance at some of the many Black gospel music websites begins to reveal the expanse of gospel music's global impact. When one considers the legion of choir and festival participants, concert-goers, gospel worship service attendees, and aficionados who have become involved with gospel music on some level, it becomes apparent that a significant cultural trend is taking place. While churches, which otherwise are sparsely attended during worship services fill up when gospel music is on the agenda, larger events, such as gospel festivals, are reputed for packing concert halls with up to a couple thousand audience participants. This places gospel music among one of the more marketable and popular music genres in all of Denmark, and likely positions it as the most viable alternative to classical music among religio-musical expressions. In a country with a population of only five million residents, the number of people amassing around this African-American Christian music form is thought-provoking. This book explores this new phenomenon.
This is one of the add-on voicing reference volumes for the "Adventures in Harmony Music Course". There is no instruction in this volume. The main instruction volume for this series is: The Handbook of Harmony - Gospel - Jazz - R&B - Soul COLOR - ISBN - 1453700951. B&W - ISBN - 1453684093. This volume contains voicings for their patent pending melody harmonization system. These are the voicing for the melody notes corresponding to the chromatic tones I through Major VII. The voicings in this reference are beautiful two handed voicings that have that black gospel praise and worship feel. This reference volume is an add-on to the main voicing reference ISBN: 1453703551 and ISBN: 1453703535. The voicings in this reference are used in the patent pending system and technique created by Creative Music. Creative Music has developed a revolutionary method enabling keyboard musicians to quickly harmonize a line of notes with infinite chord changes. Imagine being able to play a different chord on every melody note! The system is such that no two musicians will come up with the same resulting harmonization. With this course you will be creating harmonies and progressions to go with music of your choice. There are no songs or progressions to memorize in this course. This is because you are going to be creating your own progressions and harmonies to go with the songs that you choose. This is a step-by-step that you can apply to any piece of music Gregory Moody Creative Music's founder is an accomplished musician and software engineer, who comes from a family lineage of musicians, i.e., his world famous cousin NEA jazz master and recording artist, James Moody. Music education has not changed in the last century, and Creative Music is on the forefront of turning that around. We are re-inventing how music has been taught for the last century. Our instructional method goes against the grain of all past music education teaching methodologies.
Black gospel music grew from obscure nineteenth-century beginnings to become the leading style of sacred music in black American communities after World War II. Jerma A. Jackson traces the music's unique history, profiling the careers of several singers--particularly Sister Rosetta Tharpe--and demonstrating the important role women played in popularizing gospel. 
Comes with workbook & DVD! All the "Extras" the chord charts DON'T give you. Learn the secrets to the professional sound you have been looking for but could not find, until now. Learn how to use cool Passing Tones, Turnaround Chords and Endings that Black Gospel and Jazz music are so famous for. Have you ever been listening to a really cool song chocked full of wonderful chords outside of the normal changes and tried desperately to reproduce them? Perhaps you even obtained the original chord charts only to be disappointed to find those marvelous chords were not even on there. Chances are you were looking for those awedome Passing Chords and tie the arrangement together and make it flow in style. Unsually, these are strickly a musicians choice, often go uncharted, and can be hard to obtain because musicians don't like to share their secrets. Fret no more. Knowledge is power and after this study you will no longer lust after the ability to produce these on your very own. Learn to use Substitute Dominates (or 7th chords), Diminished 7th Chords, the Circle of Fifths, Those Terrific Tritones and much more. A large number of Turnaround Chords are demonstrated to wrap your song in style. Plus, Gorgeous Endings that will leave a lasting impression. The DVD follows the workbook exactly and is easy to understand. You will totally love this teaching and it will transform your playing. Just go for it, you'll be glad you did.
Clevelandís Gospel Music documents the history of black gospel music from the 1920s through the 1980s. The gospel quartet groups, radio announcers, solo artists, and promoters established Cleveland as the gospel singersí metropolitan hub. An integral part of Clevelandís history and its rich African-American community, gospel singers didnít sing for money or fame, but sang to the glory of God, often beyond the point of exhaustion. This work is a celebration of the past praises of those who sang tirelessly for some 60 years. ÝÝ